Interviews
Behind the Hidden Havana: Interview with Daína Chaviano.
Author: Paula Henríquez
Source: Havana Times
“In the 1980s, when I began my career as a writer, I didn’t have a clue about what the rest of the world was like, nor what people read elsewhere, due to the Cuban government’s strict controls on the media. I tried to get information about fantasy literature that was being written in the rest of the world, but there wasn’t a lot of information that reached the island (…) That’s how I embarked on my own path, without even realizing it, and I began to experiment with hybridization of literary genres (something which seemed so daring for science fiction purists in Cuba 40 years ago that they criticized me more than once). Today, this promiscuity of genres is beginning to become more widespread in certain regions of the world, but it was already a part of my writing style ever since that era.”(Complete text in PDF).
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